Kauai Chocolate & Coffee Festival

Kauai Chocolate & Coffee Festival

The Inaugural Kaua`i Chocolate & Coffee Festival is a celebration of all things chocolate and coffee with lots of sampling, presentations and workshops, entertainment and exhibitor booths featuring a variety of chocolate and coffee products from around the state.

The Kaua`i Chocolate & Coffee Festival spans over two days beginning on Friday with a small group workshop, sampling, entertainment & a coffee presentation in the evening. Then the festival picks up again on Saturday morning and continues on to highlight all the attributes of these two favorite local crops.This street festival takes place in Historic Hanapepe Town and includes small group workshops, presentations and demonstrations, a Passport Tasting Program, live entertainment, a massage station, a silent auction, keiki activities, sampling and much more.

Presented by the Hanapepe Economic Alliance, Hawai`i Tourism Authority, County of Kaua`i and Special Events Hawaii, the organizer of the Hawaii Chocolate Festival and organizer of the Statewide Hawaii Grown Cacao Month Initiative which is supported by the Hawaii Department of Agriculture.Our mission for the Kaua`i Chocolate & Coffee Festival is to offer an event that entertains both visitors and residents of Kaua`i; highlights Hawai`i agricultural industries of both cacao and coffee; and showcases the fine products and talents of our local farmers, chefs, roasters, chocolatiers, baristas and manufacturers while bringing prosperity to Historic Hanapepe Town.The festival will feature chocolate and coffee from Kaua`i and around the Hawaiian Islands.

This presentation will focus on our five senses as we prepare three different Kauai Coffees in three different ways.Hands on experience as farmers; Seeing coffee cherries up close; Listening for the crack of roasting; the Smell when its ground, and of course the Taste of good coffee.Each of our 5 senses will be covered as we watch the different ways to prepare coffee and then taste the results.This is an interactive workshop & conversation about your reaction to the coffees and your overall evaluation is encouraged. (Cost: $15, tickets available for purchase at Eventbrite.com.)

This presentation will focus on our five senses as we prepare three different Kauai Coffees in three different ways.Hands on experience as farmers; Seeing coffee cherries up close; Listening for the crack of roasting; the Smell when its ground, and of course the Taste of good coffee.Each of our 5 senses will be covered as we watch the different ways to prepare coffee and then taste the results.This is an interactive workshop & conversation about your reaction to the coffees and your overall evaluation is encouraged. (Cost: $15, tickets available for purchase at Eventbrite.com.)

Cupping – Learn about the different varietals that Kauai Coffee grow & roast and identify flavor attributes and cup characteristics between different roast profiles (Cost: $15, tickets available for purchase at Eventbrite.com).

Chef Judy Capertina, owner of Haole Girl Island Sweets, will explain the properties of chocolate and demonstrate chocolate tempering.This will be a hands on workshop where you’ll get to make and taste some chocolatey treats. (Cost: $25, tickets available for purchase at Eventbrite.com).

Chef Helen Lacono, owner of Hanapepe Cafe, will take you on a fabulous journey of some decadent coffee deserts. If youʻre a coffee desert lover, you wonʻt want to miss it. This will be a demonstration and tasting workshop.(Cost: $25, tickets available for purchase at Eventbrite.com).